Welcome to December and what will probably be the last regular Indie Basement of the year. New releases dry up — there’s not much this week — and list season will begin soon so stay tuned for that.

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

Here's the main thing you need to know about our ranked list of the 15 best diamond-selling hard rock and metal albums: They're all damn good. Are you surprised? History is littered with platinum ...

Portugal and Brazil square off in Semifinal action of the FIFA U-17 World Cup. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of kickoff, including how to watch. Portugal enters the U-17 World Cup ...

On his first full day in jail, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday he had violated his ankle monitoring the day before at his house arrest because of a nervous breakdown ...

Brazil's federal police arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro preemptively on Saturday, days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, officials said. A ...

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro was arrested Saturday and deemed a flight risk for an alleged attempt to avoid his 27-year prison sentence related to his efforts to stay in power in 2023. The ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday, his lawyer told Reuters, ending months of house arrest as he appealed a Supreme Court conviction for ...

From the minute Donald Trump slapped tariffs on Brazil, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva bet the US leader was going all-in on a weak hand. The wager paid off Thursday, when Trump limped away from ...

President Trump lifted his administration’s 40 percent tariffs on Brazilian food products Thursday, marking the latest reversal on a string of tariffs he imposed on other countries earlier this year.

The birth, life and the death of Jesus Christ are told through song at the Santa Fe Symphony and Chorus’ performance of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah.” “I think it invokes a sense of awe of this ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...